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Weird Science and
Weird Fantasy. In the 1960s, he gained recognition for continuing Raymond's illustrative tradition with his work on the
Flash Gordon comic-book series, and was a seminal contributor to the
Warren Publishing's black-and-white
horror comics magazines
Creepy and
Eerie. Williamson spent most of the 1970s working on his own credited strip, another Raymond creation,
Secret Agent X-9. The following decade, he became known for his work adapting
Star Wars films to comic books and newspaper strips. From the mid-1980s to 2003, he was primarily active as an
inker, mainly on
Marvel Comics superhero titles starring such characters as
Daredevil,
Spider-Man, and
Spider-Girl. He has won several industry awards, and six career-retrospective books about him have been published since 1998. Living in Pennsylvania with his wife Corina, Williamson retired in his seventies. Williamson was inducted into the
Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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Lat is a Malaysian cartoonist whose work earned him the honorific title of datuk. He was born on 5 March 1951 in a village in Perak, Malaysia, and started supplementing his family's income at the age of nine by submitting his comics to magazines and newspapers. Four years later, he published his first comic book. In 1970, Lat left school and became a crime reporter while continuing his cartooning sideline. His comic about the Bersunat—a circumcision ceremony all Malaysian boys of the Islamic faith have to undergo—made a great impression on his newspaper's editor-in-chief. As a result, Lat became an editorial cartoonist. As he gained popularity through his cartoons in Malaysia, he published his autobiography in the form of two graphic novels—The Kampung Boy and Town Boy. The Kampung Boy was a huge success and gained him international renown. It is published in various countries around the world in several languages. Lat's cartoons provide an unbiased and humorous insight on the lives and culture of Malaysians, who consider him one of their most trustworthy citizens. His admirers include American cartoonists Sergio Aragonés and Matt Groening.
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television series and a
1980 film. Raymond's father encouraged his love of drawing from an early age, leading him to become an assistant illustrator in the early 1930s on strips such as
Tillie the Toiler and
Tim Tyler's Luck. Towards the end of 1933, Raymond created the epic
Flash Gordon science-fiction comic strip to compete with the popular
Buck Rogers comic strip and, before long,
Flash was the more popular strip of the two. Raymond also worked on the jungle adventure saga
Jungle Jim and spy adventure
Secret Agent X-9 concurrently with
Flash, though his increasing workload caused him to leave
Secret Agent X-9 to another artist by 1935. He left the strips in 1944 to join the
Marines, saw combat in the
Pacific Ocean theater in 1945 and was demobilized in 1946. Upon his return from serving during
World War II, Raymond created and illustrated the much-heralded
Rip Kirby, a private detective comic strip. In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash at the age of 46; he was survived by his wife and five children. He became known as "the artist's artist" and his much-imitated style can be seen on the many strips he illustrated. Raymond worked from live models furnished by Manhattan's Walter Thornton Agency, as indicated in "Modern Jules Verne," a profile of Raymond published in the Dell Four-Color
Flash Gordon #10 (1942), showing how Thornton model Patricia Quinn posed as a character in the strip. Numerous artists have cited Raymond as an inspiration for their work, including
Jack Kirby and
Bob Kane.
George Lucas cited Raymond as a major influence for
Star Wars. He was inducted into the
Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. Maurice Horn stated that Raymond unquestionably possessed "the most versatile talent" of all the comic strip creators. He has also described his style as "precise, clear, and incisive."
Carl Barks
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University of Paris, Vincennes. Mézières has received international recognition through a number of prestigious awards, most notably the 1984
Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême
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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Pritzker Prize-winning architect
Christian de Portzamparc, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work which has, until now, been sitting in studios and bank vaults. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe. He was inducted into the
Comic Book Hall of Fame
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Brueghel of the comic strip", while the creation of his own studio and the mass production and commercialization of his work turned him into "the
Walt Disney of the
Low Countries". Vandersteen is best known for
Suske en Wiske (published in English as
Spike and Suzy
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and she received awards from the New York Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in the 1920s. Peck resided in an
art colony in
Leonia, New Jersey
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voice talent for a number of characters, as well as contributing to artistic
character design. Outside of Blizzard Entertainment, Metzen authored a
graphic novel
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on February 14, 2012.
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shorts and video games. Despite his employment with Pixar, Purcell has continued to work with comic books and came together with
Telltale Games
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Cinequest Film Festival
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, on December 15, 1966.
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Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, more commonly known as "the Eisners", to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium. Eisner enthusiastically participated in the awards ceremony, congratulating each recipient. In 1987, with
Carl Barks and
Jack Kirby, he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the
Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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Joe Shuster Awards
, named to honor the Canada-born artist.
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Eric Millikin, also known as ambigrams. Millikin is one of the few, and first, webcomic creators successful enough to make a living as an artist. He often collaborates with artist
Casey Sorrow
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (
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.
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San Diego Comic-Con International
to honor excellence in comic book writing.
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Billy DeBeck was an American cartoonist. He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip Barney Google (later retitled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith). The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith and Spark Plug the race horse. Spark Plug was a merchandising phenomenon, and has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s. DeBeck drew with a scratchy line, and his characters had giant feet and bulbous noses—what is traditionally called a "big-foot" style. His strips often reflected his love of sports. The first awards of the National Cartoonists Society, beginning in 1946, were the Billy DeBeck Memorial Awards (or the Barney Awards).
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